Reform Movements

Topics

• Urban Life and Reform
• Political Machines and Civil Service
• New Technologies
• Public Schooling
• Segregation
• Newspapers
• Mail-order
• Progressivism
• Imperialism
• Spanish- American War
• China
• Panama Canal

Essential Questions

• How were the acute problems of urban cities created, and improved?
• To what extent was civil service reform effective in combating the corruption of political machines, then and now?
• How did the technological advancements at the end of the 1800s affect life in America?
• How, when, and why did education become important in America?
• Trace the cultural and political beginnings of segregation.
• Describe the successes and failures of progressive reforms.
• How did America get into the global Imperialist fray?

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